River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-04
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Wisconsin central surveyors are Just
the survey from Abbotts-
ford to Wausau.
John Goesline, of Bayfield,, was sem
fenced to prison for five years for hav-
ing caused the death of John Heul.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. w. Coleman are
in Europe Mr.. Coleman is
the owner of the Milwaukee Herold.
Burglars at Boscobel entered the
of DIR. Armstrong and Mr..
Willoughby, but failed 10 secure any
valuables.
Judge Putney is placing a fine oaken
altar in the Episcopal church atWauke-
sha in memory of his mother, Clarissa
Howell Putney.
Milton A. Brown, editor of The
Horse Breeder, and 4. A. Briggs. of
Elkhorn. have gone 20 France for the
purpose of importing Percheron stall
lions.
Large quantities o. lumber and tim
Der have been picked up out of the lake
Racine. II is no doubt a part of the
cargo of the scow Toboggan, wrecked
off Milwaukee last week.
Win White came near diving at Eau
Claire from the effects Of poison absorb
ed from pair Of socks that had been
dyed with coloring containing arsenic
or other poisonous matter.
The mandamus suit of the town of
FL Paso, Pierce county. did not come To
trial at the appointed time, Judge
Bundy, in his anxiety to be with his
sick children having adjourned court.
The logging oarsmen at all the Chip
pewa river mills-ahout 200 in number
demand an advance in pay from 81
to 81 % a day. The contractors and
mill companies have the matter under
advisement.
One of the relics of the Hurley fire
is spike around which glass had been
melted. and in the glass is imbedded a
piece Of the skull of one of the victims.
1t was picked up on the site Of the Al
cazar theater.
Raymond Laplant' family. at Sevas-
topol. were poisoned by biscuits made
of mwholesome flour. 1t is not known
whether the flour in the sack had been
tempered with or whether it was rem
dered unwholesome by other causes.
DIR. Annette Shaw. who was elected
treasurer Of the east side district of
Eau Claire by the votes of women, is
entitled to the credit of discovering the
loss Of $500, which ex-Treasurer
Strom had appropriated to his own use.
Fritz Dittman is in Jail at Plymouth
for seriously, if not fatally stabbing
boy named Beno Sebald. Dittman
was crazy from drink at the time.
He had been pestered 10y number of
boys, and had mistaken young Sebald
for one of his tormentors.
Theodore Hoffman committed sui
eide in barn on the farm Of Mrs.
Ezelv, in the town of Black Wolf,
Winnebago county, Monday morning,
by hanging. He had been employed
as farm hand for about year. In
sanity is supposed to have been the
cause of suicide. Nothing is known of
his relatives or former residence.
The Green Bay exposition building
will be a brick-veneered structure 102x
17S feet. the main part with posts 40
feet tall, and wings two stories in
height. The top of the flagstaff, which
will be "A feet long. will be los feet
from the ground. Around the tower
there viii be balcony 30 feet from the
ground. 1t will be well lighted through
out.
Leila Spader, Is years old, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Spader, of Chic
ago. drowned Friday while in bathing
in small creek two miles from James
vile. Two other young lady friends,
| Cora Parker and Evaline Spader, sister
of the drowned girl, also narrowly es-
capped meeting similar fate, but were
rescued by Eddie Parker, who also
narrowly escaped drowning.
John r ROdaer, of the town of Bel
levue, Brown county, struck a larg-
flow of water under peculiar circum-
stances on his farm. A hole four feet
square was dug to a depth of seven feet
and then a two-inch well anger was
bored down in the bottom of that shaft
twenty-five feet further, making it
thirty-two feet beneath the surface.
There a hard-pan that could not be
penetrated by the auger was reached,
so the implement was inverted and used
rs a drill But few blows had been
struck with the drill when it dropped
through the hard-pan anda large stream
of water at once boiled up, and so fast
that the men who were in the bottom
of the shaft where the anger hole began,
had TO hasten out to avoid drowning.
The field was flooded until bitches were
dug to carry the water of. The two
inch auger hole was rapidly enlarged
nv the force o. the water and its dia-
meter is now more than foot. The
water is wonderfully clear and very
cold.
Among the interstate. state and
county fairs to be held in Wisconsin
next fall will be the following:
INTERSTATE.
Inter Madison, Oct 81
STATE AND I'M EPENDENT FAIRS.
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Sept. 12-17,
Wisconsin Industrial Racine, Aug.
29-Sept. 3.
Nolthern-Oshkosh. Sept. 80.
Wisconsin Central-FOnd du Lac,
Sept. 27-30.
Boscobel association -Boscobel Sept.
27-3O.
Milwaukee exposition-Sept 7-Oct.
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COUNTY FAIRS.
Adams-Friendship. Sept. 1929.
Brown-Depere, Sept. 6-9.
Chippewa-Chippewa Falls, Sept. 20
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Crawford Seneca, Sept. 20-22.
Portage, Aug 31-Sept 2.
Dodge-Beayer Dam, Oct. 80.
Grant-Lancaster Sept. 2l23.
Green-Monroe, Sept. l4-17
Dodgeville, Sept 27-30.
Jefferson, Sept. 27-30.
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